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Mozilla Chairman Speaks on Open Source/Microsoft

Posted by Zonk on from the welcome-to-mozzOS dept.

ChrisMDP writes "Tom's Hardware has an interesting interview with Mitch Kapor, the chairman of the Mozilla Foundation. They discuss, amongst other things, what it's like competing with Microsoft, and Firefox as an operating system." From the interview: "Pragmatically, I think we have to distinguish between a base set of extensions and everything else. It gets progressively more difficult to create seamless solutions when there are nearly infinite possibilities for customization and tweaking of settings. There's a basic tension in principle that can never be completely resolved."

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  1. um... by Cocteaustin · · Score: 2, Informative

    The chairman of the Mozilla foundation is Mitchell Baker, not Mitch Kapor.

    1. Re:um... by BBird · · Score: 2, Informative

      Mozilla Foundation Announcement ... Other industry leaders also offered their support to the new organization: Mitch Kapor, the new Chairman of the Mozilla Foundation, is making a personal ... www.mozilla.org/press/mozilla-foundation.html - 12k

    2. Re:um... by ggvaidya · · Score: 4, Informative

      Mitch Kapor is Mozilla foundation chairman (scroll down).

      Mitchell Baker is Chief Lizard Wrangler (also Foundation president).

  2. Re:What? by essreenim · · Score: 2, Informative
    Yeah, maybe, but older versions of Opera are faster than newer ones. Think about that!

  3. Firefox is slowly winning the war by lokalhost · · Score: 5, Informative

    from Securityfocus.com: as of January 2005, SecurityFocus readers using Firefox (46%) eclipsed Internet Explorer users (44%) in our traffic logs for the first time ever. I just can't wait for similar numbers hitting msn.com -- I must be a zealot for bashing microsoft.

  4. Re:"level playing field" by aug24 · · Score: 2, Informative

    No really, they have. They sacrifice proper quality to get 'first to market' time and again. Then they build on that with marketing or freebies till they are the de facto standard. That's called lock in, and it doesn't benefit consumers at all.

    Have you ever used a MS product that didn't piss you off in some subtle way? Apart from the MS keyboard, which is a lovely piece of kit.

    Justin.

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  5. Re:Getting end users converted to Firefox... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    They were convicted in the EU, dude. Sentenced too.

  6. Re:Replacing IE by jayteedee · · Score: 2, Informative

    SAP http://www.sap.com/ also makes programs that seem to only fully work with IE and not with any version of Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox that I have tried.

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  7. Re:xul by jacoplane · · Score: 4, Informative

    XUL ides. Ok not much, but it's a start. Personally I feel Mozilla should also start some development projects. Mozilla is no longer working on the composer, that is now being sponsored by Linspire. I think a push from Mozilla to build a XUL ide is a very good idea.

  8. Re:What? by joeljkp · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just to avoid wild speculation here, Navigator 2.0 final came in at 3.19 MB.

    Your point, however, stands.

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